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The
Brilliance of Swarovski Crystal
Daniel
Swarovski was born in 1862 in the Iser region of Bohemia in a small town
called Georgenthal, the centre of
Bohemia’s flourishing crystal and costume jewellery industry. Swarovski
trained as a crystal-cutter, apprenticed to his
father and to other local craftsmen, but before long he showed himself
to be a true inventor, a pioneering innovator with
a love of ideas, experimentation and machines, and a fascination with
crystal, the material he worked, and its ability to
catch and reflect light. During his visit, in 1883, at the age of 21 to
the First Electric Exhibition, in Vienna, he had an
idea that was to change his life and the history of fashion jewellery.
Fascinated by electricity, by the innovations presented at the Exhibition
by names like Siemens and Edison, and
determined to unleash the full potential of crystal, the material that
he knew so well, Daniel Swarovski I set out to
invent the first mechanical method for cutting and polishing crystal jewellery
stones. Returningto Bohemia, he
worked ceaselessly to develop his idea, and finally, nine years later,
in 1892, he was ready to register a patent for a
machine, which made it possible, for the first time, to cut crystal jewellery
stones to perfection. This perfection
continues today with the beautiful creations still being produced by Swarovski.
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